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Saudi Arabia is in line to host the 2034 World Cup after Australia decides against bidding hours before the deadline.
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That is fucking ridiculous and a disgrace. It was shit in Qatar in the middle of winter and it’ll be shit in Saudi. What a joke. The levels of bribery and corruption in world football now is incredible.
ESPN is reporting that Australia dropped their bid, so SA was the only bidder.
Australia is saying they dropped their bid because the Asian Football federation backed SA and therefor wouldn’t vote for Australia.
It’s a disgrace but the world cup in Qatar was one of the best ever lol, believe what you want but that’s how the most of the world remembers the football of that WC
Again?
Yes fifa love money and bribes remember and Saudi Arabia don’t care and have lots of money. It’s win win for the two of them
Wonder how much they had to bribe as the only nation to even submit a bid.
They probably had to bribe other confederations
No no… Not bribe… Encouraged…
The bribes had to go to Asian federation countries. Australia dropped their bid because the federation officially backed SA, so they knew they couldn’t win.
This will be received in not a great way.
Do you think female fans from across the world will be able to come and enjoy the world cup without being harassed by the morality police?
Do they have it like in Iran? You don’t need to wear a hijab in Saudi.
They’re not really a thing anymore. Saudi is dumping money trying to expand their tourism and tech industry and that means paying a ton of foreigners to go there
So fucking stupid
u wot
Yet another winter World Cup, and my only hope is that the country will improve enough in the next 11 years that I won’t have to boycott yet another WC.
I highly doubt SA will improve enough to not be boycotted. They still haven’t answered for blowing up the trade center, or chopping up a journalist, among their many list of atrocities
They won’t, and I’ll be boycotting this one too. FFS FIFA.
